Quotes about memories
memories confused maturity
As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. Anthony Burgess
memories soul sainthood
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts. Anthony Burgess
memories past boredom
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention. Anthony Bourdain
memories powerful food
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. Anthony Bourdain
memories atmosphere photographer
And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory. Andy Warhol
memories taken moving
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality. Andre Breton
memories miserable money-cant-buy-happiness
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide
memories adversity problem
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide
memories play knees
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. Ann-Marie MacDonald
memories men orange
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again. Anais Nin
memories
Memory is a great betrayer. Anais Nin
memories lost-love fate
I want you to be happy, you're my best friend. But it's so hard to let you go now with all that could have been. I'll always have the memories. She'll always have you. Fate has a way of changing just when you don't want it to. Throw away the chains, let love fly away. Till love comes again, I'll be okay. Amanda Marshall
memories moving dust
They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye. Ann Aguirre
memories simple ideas
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. William Shakespeare
memories brain
Memory, the warder of the brain. William Shakespeare
memories
Those memories are all I have. I don't have anything else.
memories home self
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory. Robert Fulghum
memories people mind
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it. Robert Fulghum
memories disregard ends
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. Robert Frost
memories believe memorable
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. Rita Mae Brown
memories people details
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. Rick Moody
memories grieving shirts
Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back Richard Thompson
memories nuts shots
Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!! Richard Madeley
memories self light
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been. Richard Matheson
memories feelings satisfaction
Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Richard Matheson
memories feelings humanity
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. Richard Eyre
memories people want
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma. Richard Dreyfuss
memories lying believe
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. Rene Descartes
memories judging perception
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand. Rene Descartes
memories eye hands
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. Thucydides
memories land bridges
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder
memories forget feels
I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible. Thomas de Quincey
memories trustworthy notorious
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. Thomas de Quincey